Guest column: Try free enterprise, not regulation

6:24 PM,
Jul. 19, 2013

Written by

Bob Inglis

On this page last Saturday and in recent speeches President Barack Obama has proposed to regulate CO2. It's precisely the worst way to address climate change. Free enterprise has the better answer.

The president says he's going to regulate CO2 because the Supreme Court says he has to regulate CO2. He's got a point. The Court's decisions together with the EPA's finding that CO2 endangers public health compel action under existing law.

But we don't have to stay in the box created by those decisions and that law, and we certainly don't have to seal up the box with rolls and rolls of new EPA red tape. We ...